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Every time I boot this PC, Windows takes forever to load. Once it finally hits the desktop, it stays alive for maybe a minute or two before just shutting itself down. It’s a constant loop. I've read online that malware might be the culprit, but the machine dies too fast for me to even run a scan. Things have been sluggish lately, but I didn't think much of it until it reached this breaking point.
Specs:
-Intel i5 quad core 3.10 ghz
-ATI Radeon HD 6790 1 GB
-2x2GB RAM (DDR3)
-1 TB HDD

Current security setup:
-Anvi Smart Defender
-Avast

For those of you who actually game, this thing is a disaster. I'm getting 10-30 FPS during fights in League of Legends, dropping to 40 outside of them. Even on Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4, I can barely hit 125 FPS and I can't even lock it. That should tell you exactly how broken this system is.

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Is that rig still under warranty? If not, I'm gonna crack it open and blow out the dust...

William Richardson12 said:Is that PC still under warranty? If not, just open it up and blow out the dust.

My bad, I forgot to mention—this whole mess actually started right after I cleaned the dust out.🤷

Maybe try installing a fresh version of Windows, and you can just back everything up using some kind of Linux live CD. (though maybe someone a bit more tech-savvy than me could walk you through the specifics of using a live CD and those partitioning schemes). 😛
If you've already got Windows sitting on its own separate partition, then man, you're actually in luck because that makes things way easier.

Look, obviously, like people were saying, you should definitely give it a good cleaning to get all that dust out first and see if that helps. But honestly? If Windows is still booting up like a snail and then just shutting itself down after two minutes, I'm telling you, it smells like a software issue to me, and no amount of dusting is going to fix a corrupted OS.

Roger Gray8 said:Try doing a clean install of Windows. You can run a backup using some kind of Linux live CD. (Maybe someone more experienced than me can walk you through the specifics of live CDs and those partitioning schemes). 😛
If you have Windows on its own separate partition, your life gets a whole lot easier.

Look, like people already told you, clean out the dust first and see if that helps. But honestly? If Windows is booting slow and then just dying after two minutes, I’m smelling a software issue. Dust won't fix a corrupt OS.

Thanks for the reply. Now if only an actual expert would show up, because frankly, I have no clue what I'm doing here.🙂🙂🙂

If you don't have a clue what you're doing, just find someone who actually does... otherwise you'll probably just end up making things worse.

William Richardson12 said:If you don't know what you're doing, find an expert. Otherwise, you'll just end up making things worse.

Pfft. If I actually had "an expert" on speed dial, I wouldn't be begging for help on a forum, would I? Hah.

You can always just take it to a repair shop. It’ll be cheaper than wrecking something inside... assuming you haven't already.

Joseph Mendoza6 said:Thanks for getting back to me, but man, I really wish someone who actually knows their stuff could jump in here because I am honestly just totally lost on what my next move should be.🙂🙂🙂

Honestly, you can't really mess this up too badly since it isn't rocket science, right? My only real concern is whether we're looking at a hardware failure here, but hey, if you want to test things out with a fresh Windows install, go for it.

First, you grab something like an Ubuntu Linux live CD and burn it onto a disc using a program like ImgBurn.
Then, you just head into your BIOS First boot Device settings and set the CD drive as the priority.
Pop the disc in, and if the burn went smoothly, you should see the Ubuntu live CD startup screen pop up right away.
Once you're in, just pull up "My Computer" to see all your drives, and then you can grab whatever files you need from your Windows partition (assuming you have a separate one for Windows). Just a heads-up though—it might refuse to open at first if Windows wasn't shut down properly. If you don't actually need anything from that Windows partition, you can just go ahead and wipe everything and install Windows immediately...

Do a little digging on these:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...dows-computer/

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials...linux-live-cds

http://bit.ly/QcLfFY

Maybe try borrowing a power supply from someone else just to test it out. By the way—what were you using to clean the dust out of your PC?

...if you pulled the heatsink and the CPU fan off to clean things out... maybe you didn't seat them back down right? It could be overheating and just shutting itself off because of that.

Just perform a clean install of Windows 7 and you’ll be over these headaches—honestly, if the issues persist after that, then you're looking at a hardware failure... that was my exact situation, and once I swapped out the faulty components, everything finally stabilized!!